Population Growth
August 14, 2009--Las Vegas pipeline delayed under water agreememt (Denver Post)
A growing and thirsty Las Vegas wouldn't be able to begin building a water pipeline from a shared aquifer with Utah until at least 2019 under a draft agreement between Utah and Nevada regulators announced
August 11, 2009--Salazar to highlight West's water challenges at forum (Pueblo Chieftain)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday that the West’s limited water supplies face growing pressure from agricultural uses, changing demographics and climate change - underscoring the need for mor
August 9, 2009--Steamboat 700 water issues complicated (Steamboat Pilot)
Water has proved to be a contentious issue — as it always does in the West — between the city of Steamboat Springs and Steamboat 700.
August 8, 2009--State faces thirsty future (Cortez Journal)
Ten million people will live in Colorado by 2050, putting strains on the water supply that can only be met by taking water from agriculture and building new pipelines from the Western Slope to the Front Ra
- Agriculture
- California
- Colorado
- Colorado River
- Colorado River Water Conservation District
- Colorado Water Conservation Board
- Flaming Gorge Reservoir
- Interbasin Compact Committee
- Irrigation
- Northern Colorado Water Conservation District
- Oil Shale
- Population Growth
- Press Clippings
- Utah
- Water Rights
- Water Storage
- Water Supply
- Wyoming
- Yampa River
July 31, 2009--Study: Colorado's water needs growing (Denver Post)
A new state study says Colorado will likely use nearly triple the amount of water it currently uses by 2050 due to a growing population and economy and environmental needs.
July 25, 2009--City scientists, CSU Extension help with water reuse study (Grand Junction Sentinel)
In the near future, states such as Colorado may rely on “gray water,” which is a term for water already used once in showers, baths, bathroom sinks and washing machines.
July 21, 2009--Climate change puts western water supply at risk (Environmental News Service)
The Colorado River system, which 30 million people depend on for drinking and irrigation, could lose all of its reservoir storage to climate change by the middle of the century, a new University of Colorad
July 20, 2009--Nature preserve soon to replace Clifton's old wastewater lagoons (Grand Junction Sentinel)
As of Wednesday, workers were halfway through the job of dredging the district’s three decommissioned lagoons.
July 19, 2009--Protecting ag land key to state's health (Pueblo Chieftain)
If Colorado’s mountains are like the heart and lungs of the state, its streamside environments are the veins and arteries.
July 15, 2009--Halligan expansion eyes water needs (Fort Collins Coloradoan)
Fort Collins' future water supply would be secured by enlarging Halligan Reservoir on the North Fork of Poudre River, officials say.
